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Out of the Morgue
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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A 1908 photo of Barton Countys original courthouse. The courthouse square has always consisted of a two blocks long park--an awfully long route for a body to be drug around, as happened April 30, 1886, according to Barton County historian Karen Neuforth. - photo by courtesy of Karen Neuforth
April is a month filled with violent history, both in the past and present day. By 1886, Great Bend’s lawless days were over. Violence, however, still erupted from time to time.